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Photos from manatee health assessments, CMA, and piano-adjacent days. No pictures of other kids.

Dive Team volunteering at CMA — Jacob in a habitat with a cleaning brush.

Cleaning habitat glass from the inside on CMA’s Dive Team.

Gear check beside the tank rack before a CMA habitat dive.

A manatee under the paddleboard in mangrove water near Clearwater.

Paddleboarding through mangroves near Clearwater.

First volunteer weeks at Clearwater Marine Aquarium.

Jacob with Jamal Galves at the Dr. James Buddy Powell Manatee Rehabilitation Center.

Jacob with Dr. Adrienne Adkins after Belize field days.

With Glenford Guy before a two-tank dive in Belize.

Field team with a large female manatee (F220) during Belize assessments, 2026.

Watching a mangrove channel from the boat during Belize assessments.

A male manatee on the exam tarp the day Jacob field-tested the breath tracker.

Jacob with a male manatee marked M217 during Belize year two.

Field test of Jacob’s manatee breath-tracker — timestamps and breaths per minute.

First morning of Belize year two, beside the assessment boat in Placencia.

Jacob drawing while a CMA dolphin watches from the habitat window.

Jacob’s handwritten thank-you for Dr. Buddy Powell and Jamal Galves.

Speaking to the Rotary Club of Etowah about the Belize expedition.

On the boat during a Belize manatee health assessment.

Health assessment on the boat — identification mark M209 and monitoring gear.

Gales Point Manatee Lodge, the 2025 field base.

Jacob with Jamal Galves and a manatee during a Belize health assessment, 2025.

CMA graphic for Echoes of the Ocean — Superheroes of Manatee Conservation, June 6, 2024.

Jacob with Dr. Buddy Powell at Clearwater Marine Aquarium’s Echoes of the Ocean night.

Jacob talking with Dr. Buddy Powell and Jamal Galves after the program.